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SADDLE

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

SADDLE is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

SADDLES-s 5 SADDLING 11 SADDLED-d 5
noun
  1. A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
  2. A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
  3. Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”).
  4. A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
  5. The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
  6. broadlyChiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
  7. broadlySynonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).
  8. A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
  9. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
  10. The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
  11. An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
  12. An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
  13. AustraliaSynonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”).
  14. Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).
  15. The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
  16. A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
  17. A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
  18. The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
  19. The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
  20. The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
  21. In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
  22. USA piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
  23. USSynonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”).
  24. A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
verb
  1. transitiveTo put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
  2. transitiveTo put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo enter (a trained horse) into a race.
  4. figurativelytransitiveChiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
    • He has been saddled with the task of collecting evidence of the theft.
    • They went shopping and left me saddled with two children to look after.
    • He is saddled with house payments now, so he can't afford to spend more money.
  5. figurativelytransitiveChiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
  6. archaicfigurativelytransitiveTo control or restrain (someone or something), as if using a saddle; to bridle, to harness, to rein in.
  7. figurativelyobsoleteraretransitiveTo get (someone) to do a burdensome task.
  8. transitiveTo cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
  9. obsoletetransitiveTo put something on to (another thing) like a saddle on an animal.
  10. CanadaUSintransitiveTo put a saddle on an animal.
  11. CanadaUSintransitiveOf a person: to get into a saddle.